A Few Disjointed Thoughts on Perth
I’m over in WA for work at the moment and thought I would jot down a few thoughts concerning the World’s most distant Capital City.
1. It takes a hell of a long time to get here.
2. Pubs lack pokies so you can be forced to resort to conversation with the bar flies in attendance, to varying levels of comfort.
3. It is an odd feeling to head West to go see the Seaside.
4. Pubs are bloody bandits when it comes to charging for drinks.
5. It’s a nice place, but feels old. As though development stopped sometime around 1976 and hasn’t got around to starting up again.
6. You’d make a fortune if you served a decent coffee in this town. The line would travel around the block three times.
7. Lots of Moslems in the bit that I am in. No problem with that at all, but you notice them more over here for some reason.
8. Talk radio is EXACTLY the same.
9. Strange things are very expensive over here. I saw a sign for a barbecued chicken place for a chook for $19 as though it was a super special.
10. Feels a bit like Brisbane, but also different. Hard to discern and decide what the differences are, but they are there.
11. Trains are short and tend to be jam packed. Put another carriage on for God’s sake and stop the whole sardine act.
12. Whilst the coffee is execrable the service has been excellent so far. Admittedly, I am not too sure I want to push it too far in case I have been lucky enough to find the two or three truly great cafe’s in Perth for service.
13. Shopping centres are shopping centres are shopping centres.
14. Hotel room coffee redefines execrable.
15. The two hour time difference is pretty easy to overcome, in fact it is probably much harder for my colleagues in the East to manage. They won’t call me at 6in the morning when they come to work, but have to wait around for my calls in the afternoon up to seven or eight at night.